Spring v. City of Cambridge

The plaintiffs’ intestate was the purchaser at a tax sale of certain property sold by the collector of taxes of the defendant city for non-payment of taxes. It subsequently appeared that by reason of error in the sale the intestate had no claim upon the property sold. This is an action to recover under R. L. c. 13, § 44, the amount with interest paid by the plaintiffs’ intestate for said property. The case was tried by the court without a jury, and the presiding judge* found for the plaintiffs. The case is here on exceptions by the defendant in regard to rulings that were made and refused by…